ATOMIC AGE
SUPPOSE we should wake in some armageddon year To find the morning skies Full of sunsets, the cities and the stockpiles blown clear Up in smoke, the jolted earth swinging polar-wise On a new axis; would you tremble, my dear? LONE in your fashionable homestead on the estate, You will saunter under the pines When I am gone, to muse by the primrose arboured gate, Arching your beautiful bow mouth at the headlines Above the hills and simper at fate. OW shall we measure the azimuth of pain Riding like a charred rainbow Starkly tke horizon with our love’s poor span; Or embrace on this hill by the last glow Of happiness embered along earth’s plain? A CCORDING as we think by fits and starts Of man in impartial phrases And not in verbs, catastrophe fails to move gur hearts; The young gitted watcher gazing, only gazes 4 Noncommittally at distant parts. ND so, dearly beloved, I must leave, cataclysm Or no; (the mad earth ; Avalanched like a snowball down some chasm Of ether) since to wait on you is death, And the fissure between us widens into schism. O love in conclave will a phoenix spring From the ash of the poisoned atoll; Only the eagle soars on a bronze wing, And the fastidious dove tumbles from the full
Charged sky where eagles sing. Ok
Colin
Newbury
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 14
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230ATOMIC AGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 14
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